Back with another trip report for my fall 2026 trip during the Dutch Fall holidays. Parks included will be Tripsdrill, Europa Park, Phantasialand, and Movie Park Germany.

Tripsdrill is a really fun park located in the middle of nowhere near Europa Park. We didn't really know what to expect of this park, but ended up being blown away by the immersive theming and the attention to detail. Being used to the likes of Efteling and Phantasialand, this park honestly has a shot at playing in the big leagues.

In terms of variety in attractions, I have to say it's not really that much. In the thrill rides department, at least. They apparently have the only Gerstlauer Waltzer ever built, as well as a unique maypole tower ride by ABC Rides (that only worked half), but also a variety of unique tracked rides, such as two controlled spinning track rides by Metallbau Emmeln, which I've never seen before at any park, or a tracked ride consisting half of old timer cars and half of horse drawn carriages, of which you can actually ride the horses.

Now for the coasters:

Hals-über-kopf, Vekoma Suspended Thrill Coaster [#10 of 122 ranked]:

What a brilliant ride. I quite literally came out praising Vekoma for knocking it out of the park with their ride design. This is a fantastic inverted coaster that easily proves just how much Vekoma has grown over the years. I also love how the layout intertwines with Volldampf, makes for a great two-for-one package.

Karacho, Gerstlauer Infinity Coaster [#13 of 122]:

It's insane just how much better the Infinity coasters are to the Euro fighters. Having ridden Falcon at Duinrell and Flucht von Novgorod at Hansa Park not too long ago, which seem to be consistently try to break your neck, this coaster was glass smooth. Very punchy launch and whippy inversions, too. With this and Hals-über-kopf, this is amongst the best one-two punches in the industry, I believe.

Volldampf, Vekoma Family Boomerang [#78 of 122]:

It's a Vekoma Family Boomerang with a pretty cool layout and decent theming, what more can I say?

G'Sengte Sau, Gerstlauer Bobsled [#92 of 122]:

This is apparently the first coaster ever built by Gerstlauer, according to RCDB? This was a bit of a surprise since you wouldn't really notice by the layout, I've been on worse bobsleds. But I guess that's pretty cool. The layout itself seems to be the standard Bobsled model as found on Thor's hammer at Djurs Sommerland and Drachenritt at Belantis, but that doesn't take away from this being a fun ride, albeit a little rough. Love the theming with the castle and the log flume as well.

Mammut, Cordes/Gerstlauer Wooden coaster [#109 of #122]:

Honestly, I wish this could've just been a GCI or a gravity group. Heck, this would've done great as an Intamin Prefab. The layout has potential, but the train shuffles immensely to the point of barely being enjoyable. I really couldn't feel any airtime over the drop and big hills either in both front and back row. I do not necessarily think this ride should get the RMC treatment, since a standard wooden coaster does really fit this park, but at least give it a proper retrack

Additional notes: Apparently this park never gets any big crowds, which was reflected during our visit because essentially everything was a walk-on. That's not too unusual though, since parks tend to be rather quiet during fall holidays as opposed to summer holidays, but noteworthy regardless. Also, I've had some mixed experiences with the staff here, where I've had some extremely competent and nice operators, but I've also had it happen a few times that our operator wasn't paying attention/wasn't watching the ride due to being too busy looking at their phone.

This park is genuinely fantastic, and I thoroughly believe that this parks fills several voids that most parks are still missing: Immersive, coherent and detailed theming, a variety of interesting and unique rides, and among the most consistently themed queues among any park. I also really like the atmosphere around the park as well as the small gimmicks, like millstones being used as queue fencing, or rides being themed to either totally mundane or completely insane things, at a level unrivalled by most parks. In other words, I am extremely positive about this park and hope to return again in a year or so. Apparently they're building a new bird themed carousel that isn't on logrides yet, which has been looking amazing so far (wish I took some photos but I forgor 💀😭🥀)

Yesterday i was at Linnanmäki in Helsinki, Finland and took this amazing picture of Taiga. The lights were amazing. Tho the coasterlineup at Linnanmäki needs some spice to it.

Just an FYI.

Rode TT2 and [Siren’s Curse] for the first time. Front seat on TT2 on our very first ride, amazing. Hit [Steel Vengeance] at the end of the night, incredible as always.

Rode Siren’s Curse 3 times, amazing sound design and track layout, love the song that plays throughout the ride after the tilt drop. Excellent theming.

This is not my photo

Felt like I could touch the ground on that thing. I considered Twisted Timber’s final one and the mosasaurus roll but they seem higher up, so interested to know if there’s any other contenders

My son, who is still just under 48 inches, got his milestone 100th credit on Vortex today. I’m excited for the next 100 credits, especially once he finally hits 48 inches!

My b&w roll came back after the color roll last week. Shout out to the absolute king in row 2 of Magnum. Your aura is immaculate, and I hope you see this post.

1. Magnum
   
2. Lil Maverick duel
   
3. Steel Vengeance
   
4. Corkscrew corkscrewin’
   
5. Siren’s Curse
   
6. Millennium Force

I’m currently enjoying night rides on Rampage. Earlier today, we had a tour of the coaster and the maintenance building which houses parts of the black train that is used for parts. The pictures show some of the old and new track and a view from the lift hill walk. I’m currently stuck on the ride in the station because the train came in too fast.

Please send me your thoughts on this. I think the park would benefit from a flying roller coaster in the old abandoned Amphitheater area like Tatsu, Superman ultimate flight, and Manta and because we already have a Superman themed ride here we could theme it to Superman’s clone Bizzaro and call the coaster Bizzaro flight of chaos. we have enough room for the rides layout.

Brought my instant camera with me today and had a great time taking pictures especially of Phobia. Really beautiful coaster that I did not go on. Zoomerang and Wildcat were closed and one time on Boulder Dash (last picture) was enough so I just enjoyed the flat rides otherwise. Now I’m kind of in love with taking pictures of coasters haha

Hello. I have been looking everywhere, trying to get a clear image of the Pretzel Knot at the end of Banshee from the "other side." As you probably know, at Kings Island, the far side of each coaster is out of the park, and not accessible to guests. I am wondering if there are any photographs of the Pretzel Knot that have been taken by professional photographers, Kings Island employees, legally-obtained high-zoom drone shots, etc.

My intent is to have a shot of the pretzel knot where the supports are clearly distinguishable from the supports of the elements leading into and out of it. Google isn't particularly helpful, but it is hard to ask this question of a computer. These two shots I posted above are the best shots I can find that feature the Pretzel Knot, but they are the wrong angle, and everything is a jumble in front of it. I need a clean image from the other side to get just the supports I want without the supports I don't want.

I am not asking, encouraging or endorsing anyone to trespass, break any park rules, or violate Kings Island airspace, especially not in this public reddit thread.

Thank you for your time.

On Oct. 17th I visited Jaderpark along with my Brother for the first time and we were left very positive about our visit.

We arrived at the park at about 10:30~10:50 at the park we first walked through and did the park's Zierer Tivoli coaster [Holzwurm] and it was a standard Tivoli Medium model with 2 laps. After that we did the park'z VanEgdom Dingyboat: [Rocky Rafting] which is where I got a view of [Ziegel-Blitz] and the themed area is was located in. After that we finaly did Ziegel Blitz and here are my thoughts

It was very fun and unique Gerstlauer Bobsled coaster the ride featured a Swing Launch which surprised both of us, and became our favourite Gerstlauer Bobsled coaster, it was also very well themed which I didn't expect at all. The que was a 15-10 min. waiting. And everytime we rode it we got a front seat. Right next to the Bobsled coaster was an ART Wild Swing which absolutely love.

Near the Ziegel Blitz was a HAFEMA Log Flume it was similair to Mami Wata at Fantasiana and I think has a longer layout and also had great theming. After that we walked around the park and did everything again including a Halloween-Trail that was only there for the Halloween season.

And after about 3 hours of being in the park we left and visited Bremen city and Nettebad in Osnabrück.

Final thoughts: Jaderpark was a fun park (and Zoo) with amazing theming and would recomend for a half-day visit and is definitly worth it.

Edit: Yes I know I misspelled 'Surprise'

When a coaster that should’ve been gone years but is not

(Pictured in order: Superman: Ultimate Flight, Blue Hawk, Dare Devil Dive, Great American Scream Machine)

Despite the accident that occurred last Monday on Goliath, a few of my friends and I decided to get our coaster hesitancies out of our system, and I'm happy to say that this trip indeed worked in accomplishing that goal.

Upon arriving at park opening (6pm) tonight, all rides were slowly opening after maintenance teams went to every ride and did thorough, in-depth maintenance checks which also included at least 6 testing runs before even letting guests in line. Green shirt staff were posted at almost every ride tonight, rotating out to always keep an eye on things.

There were a handful of rides not open tonight, I assume from staffing and extra precautions taken during maintenance checks. There would be a few times when we'd see a ride testing with ride crews in the station, only for the ride to not open for the night at all. I can't speculate much on that front. However, everything that was open was running smoothly.

Operations were very good tonight. Everything except the mine train was running two trains (even Scorcher, which surprised me), and dispatches were fast and efficient. One slight downside, out of precaution ride operators were clearly instructed to staple everyone on every ride tonight, with one of the ops even apologizing for having to make the restraints so tight against us. With that being said, ride crews were checking every restraint thoroughly, and some crews would even check a second time just to be sure. It was some of the cleanest dispatches I have seen at the park since August, where trains were consistently being pumped out in a safe manner.

As one could imagine, crowds were non-existent tonight. Every single ride was an instant walk on, and in many cases we would be able to keep our seats if we wanted to ride again.

Overall, this was a good trip, even with the current loss of Goliath and a few other coasters closed, such as Twisted Cyclone and Mindbender. This trip reassured me well, as I had been in somewhat of a dejected mood ever since the accident earlier this week and needed something to snap me out of it.

It’s down until further notice. Not a great look this week

My local park, though I haven't been in some time until this year. Cannonball is riding pretty great, but the structure has definitely seen better days. I was just wondering how expensive it would be to paint something of this size? From my research, it seems Baynum Solutions is the gold standard on paint wooden roller coasters, but I'm sure you pay a pretty penny for that experience. Is this something a park could handle in house with it's own maintenance staff? A couple bucket lifts, paint rollers, and hard work? Is this something they could contract out to a local painting company for cheaper than Baynum Solutions? Would a local company even be willing to take on a project of this scale? It's an interesting part of the industry you don't hear as much about.

Ive heard they are but surprised half the coasters are down with them being only open 2 days a week! Is the Flash more down than up? An employee said it depends on the year, lol.